From: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
CC: Schumaker Anna <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>,
        List Linux NFS Mailing <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
        List Linux Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] NFSv4: replace seqcount_t with a rw_semaphore
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:11:02 +0000
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